Celia smoking

Details

DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)
Celia smoking
lithograph, 1973, on Angoumois handmade wove paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil, numbered 23/70 (there were also 17 proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps, the full sheet, with deckle edges on three sides, a 20 mm. repaired tear at the right sheet edge, spot-glued to the backboard at the upper corners verso, with some pale associated staining recto
Image & Sheet 990 x 725 mm.

Literature

Scottish Arts Council 146; Tokyo 136

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Lot Essay

Celia Birtwell (born 1941) is a British textile designer. She studied fabric design at Salford and met Hockney in 1961 through his friend Mo McDermott and the fashion designer Ossie Clark, whom she married in 1969. His favourite female sitter, Hockney has portrayed Celia many times throughout their long and enduring friendship. Although these portraits reflect Hockney's many stylistic changes and technical variations over the years, they consistently capture Birtwell's gentle femininity as well as a hidden steeliness.

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